Addition excursion (2 days on Solovki):

1st day: Check in at the hotel with dinner after the main excursion.

2nd day: Breakfast at the hotel.

Sea trip on a boat to the Great Zayatsky Island. Tourists will visit the largest pagan shrine dating back to 2000-1000 BC, see stone labyrinths, a complex of religious buildings, the first Russian stone harbor, as well as the Skete of Saint Andrew. Tour duration: 3 hours.

Note: It takes 45 minutes to get from the Great Solovetsky Island to the Great Zayatsky Island by boat. The tour is held during favorable weather conditions, provided that there is no storm warning.

Lunch at the hotel.

Tour by bus: Sekirnaya Mountain. Ascension Skete. Excursion: Botanical Garden-Macarius Hermitage. Visit to the Northernmost botanical garden in Russia, the archimandrite house, the Alexander Chapel, and the Memorial Cross. Tour duration: 3.5 hours.

Recommendations: For those tourists who stay on the Great Solovetsky Island overnight, we recommend making the first day a fascinating boat trip to the lake-channel system which is one of the best landmarks of the Solovetsky Islands. There are more than 400 lakes on Solovki, with significantly different water lines. The construction of the Solovetsky Monastery caused a significant increase in the population of the village that required an increasing amount of drinking water. The lack of rivers prompted settlers to connect the lakes by canals.

The lake-canal system was created four centuries ago under the leadership of Abbot Philip (1548-1566). Seventy-eight lakes were connected into a single water system that supplies water to the Holy Lake. The distance from the tour office to the boat station is 2.8 km. At the boat station, tourists get on Pella boats with a capacity of 4-5 people each. The tourists navigate the boats on their own.